Renato Curcio

Renato Curcio (23 September 1941-) was the leader of the communist Red Brigades in Italy during the "Years of Lead".

Biography
Renato Curcio was born in Monterotondo, Lazio, Italy in 1941, and the 1945 murder of his beloved uncle in a fascist ambush left him with a lifelong hatred of fascism. While studying at the Universal of Trento during the 1960s, Curcio became an existentialist, and he gravitated towards radical politics and Marxism during the mid-1960s. In 1969, he married fellow leftist student Margherita Cagol, and they co-founded the Red Brigades in 1970. From 1972 to 1975, the Red Brigades engaged in a series of bombings and kidnappings during the "Years of Lead", and Curcio was imprisoned before Cagol freed him. Cagol was killed by the Carabinieri not long after, sending Curcio into a depression. Curcio was recaptured and imprisoned in 1976, and the Red Brigades became more radical, assassinating former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. Curcio was released in 1998, and he worked as a writer.